What do you carry on a ride?

coopsman1

Might seem like a daft question nut, What do you carry in our saddle bag while on your ride out?

Reason I am asking is because I usually carry a camelback from the MTB side of things. Now I am doing some road cycling I don't want to be lugging that thing around, so I bought a toppeak large aero saddlebag.

Currently I have packed the following items:

1 x spare inner tube
Co2 pump + 1 cartridge (Mighty carry another cartridge)
Couple of tywraps
3 x metal tyre levers
couple of glueless puncture repair patches
A tool I have adapted to carry the certain Allen keys / screwdrivers I might need
Couple of electrolyte tablets


Anything that I have missed at all or something that you carry different to me?

Any help would be appreciated 8)

slip210

looks pretty good, but for a road bike i would lose the glueless patches and get a small weldtite (or your preferred band) puncture repair kit. I have found glueless patches struggle to hold the higher pressures in a road bike tyre and tend to pop.

regards

slip

Yossie

I carry a kid's Nurofen orange insulated bag in my back pocket - size of a can of coke.

Cable ties small and long, wrapped around into a bundle with long elastic bands Useful in themselves.
Leatherman tool
Co2 canister and top thingy
Small roll of insulting tape
2 x pairs of latex gloves
£2.50 in cash for when you have to catch the bus
2 x Park tools plastic tyre levers
Park tools small multi tool for allem keys
Small mobile 'phone (which I don't think actually works)
Key to house (door blocked by kid's easel from inside so you have to kick
your way in)
Business cards in case it all gets lost and someone nice finds it and hand sit to dibble

In other pocket, a spare tube in the box filled with talc so its ready to go, parcel taped up so its doesn't get soggy or wet from rain/sweat.

balthazar

In my seatpack, permanently on the bike:

-Spare inner tube
-Tube repair kit
-tyre boot made from an old bit of thin plastic, it's origin lost in time
-a manual chain link for my own bike (10 speed) and usually a couple of others 9+10 speed, in case anybody I meet needs them
-a small Topeak multitool, with the usual: hex keys, chain breaker, etc.
-£20
-a few zipties. I'm not sure what for but when you need them you really miss them, and they stop everything rattling.


Pump on the bike. I'd never use pressurised canisters, when I can inflate a tyre in a moment with a pump. The waste is beyond my ken.

Phone, food, waterproof, in my back pockets.

classic road

Good list. Only suggestion would be one of those Presta to Schrader adapters so you can use a service station air tower to top of a flat.

Yossie

classic road wrote:

Good list. Only suggestion would be one of those Presta to Schrader adapters so you can use a service station air tower to top of a flat.

Oooh - yes agree. I have one cabled tied to the Leatherman case. Good call. 50p from LBS.

Gizmodo

A mobile phone.

If I have a problem I'm phoning a taxi.

Rodrego Hernandez

Why do you guys only carry one spare tube?

Patches aren't to be relied on - especially if it's wet or damp, why not just carry 2 or 3 tubes, some CO2 and a multitool? Surely you don't need more than that?

ju5t1n

1 x inner tube. 1 x pack of instant patches. 1 plastic tyre lever. Phone.

I ride 8000+ miles a year and can only remember needing the patches once.

Phoned for a rescue half a dozen times though!

nferrar

In seat pack: 2 x tubes, some patches, tyre boot, 2 x tyre levers, small multi-tool, couple of specific full size allen keys, missing link, chain tool
Pocket: pump

Twostage

I've just added one of those multi-tool pliers that fold away (tescos, £5). I was on a ride a couple of weeks ago and my mate got a small piece of wire through his tyre. It poked through just enough to puncture the inner but not far enough to get a grip with your fingers. The only way you could get it out was with pliers (which he had). Plan B was to sacrifice an inner to make a small patch to absorb the end of the wire.